Selections

from

VISUAL POEMS
1967 - 1970

by

Clemente Padin

Presenting visual poetry on the web involves a number of problems. Many will
be solved by poets working directly in web related technology, with computer
screen sizes and proportions in mind. The following poems were designed for
presentation on paper. To get whole poems onscreen, they must be greatly
reduced, which causes loss of detail. If they are not reduced, you can't see
them complete. In many instances, seeing a whole page at once isn't important.
But given Clemente Padin's concern with presenting high impact, immediate
gestalts on the page, and given the sequencing of the two series, Text
and Signographic, the importance of seeing things all at once is
crucial. Presenting the selections first in reduced form, as an overview,
and then in larger size seems a good solution, and that's the way I've set
them up here.